What do you do with leftover polenta (coarse ground cornmeal – Italian “grits”) and pomegranate seeds, knowing you have plenty of winter-perfect maple syrup in the pantry? (PURE, 100% MAPLE SYRUP 🍁 – don’t mess around with anything less).Well, you bake a cake, OF COURSE!!! As a neighbor said to me, “it’s beautiful, but it…
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I dream and drool at the spicy aroma of chai tea.Cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves, allspice, nutmeg…So good. SO GOOD!My mouth is watering. (And, these are cookies I’m eventually describing, come on – with both chocolate and white chocolate chips!) My hubby, on the other hand, simply does not care for “the taste of Christmas.”He scoffs…
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Shawarma (/ʃəˈwɑːrmə/; Arabic: شاورما) is a popular Levantine dish consisting of meat cut into thin slices, stacked in a cone-like shape, and roasted on a slowly-turning vertical rotisserie or spit. Originally made with lamb or mutton, it is now also made of chicken, turkey, beef, or veal. Initially developed in the Ottoman Empire (roughly modern-day Turkey)…
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Well, I have an angel. Valerie – my nearest and dearest. As I cried on her shoulder, she said to me, “YOU CANNOT GIVE UP THE BLOG.” She’s right. It’s me. It’s US. It’s my creative outlet, my way to communicate, my canvas, and my heart. My love language is food.I love food. I speak…
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As life evolves and things change, we learn to adapt, compromise, and shift our values and our perspectives. Thus, I’ve come to a point in my life, after NINE years of blogging beautiful food, awesome ideas, and my mystical musings, that it’s time to take a break.Blogging is EXPENSIVE. I am non-monetized. My blog is…
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Fresh, homemade pasta.Meyer Lemons.Fresh Petals.Butter. Salt. Pepper. Meyer Lemon Pasta Petal Pieces
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I’ve had this idea in the queue for quite sometime…in fact, I think it’s been at least a year that the words Apple Onion Kale Smoked Gouda & Pork burgers have stared back at me from the notes in my phone on a daily basis. I keep a copious list of recipe ideas both on…
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While food is my inspiration in life ~ the gift of nourishment and pleasure ~ art is often my inspiration when it comes to food. And this time, it’s Michaelangelo’s Pietà. Starry Night – Van Gogh was truly a genius. The Son of Man – Brilliant. The Pietà – We can all agree that Michaelangelo was…
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As I said before, the blood orange season is simply so sweet and so short, I feel compelled the create and consume the superb citrus sphere. Rather than a cake – this time, a perfectly roasted pork tenderloin over polenta and spinach, glazed with the sweet savory goodness of a blood orange reduction-paste. Enjoy. Polenta,…
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So, I simply couldn’t let go of the beauty ~ silky black and brilliant orange farfalle no more Marbled Pappardelle beautiful in every way… Pappardelle [papparˈdɛlle] (sing.: pappardella) are large, very broad, flat pasta noodles, similar to wide fettuccine.[1] The name derives from the verb “pappare”,[2] to gobble up.
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